Watching the elven Inquisitor handle a sword makes me shake my head every time. Those little noodle arms can handle daggers *maybe* and when a mage who has not yet even gotten the option to start training as a knight enchanter picks up a sword... it just feels that they might as well pick up a stick and wave it around.

Spoiler: Those notes in the alienage in Origins about how elves who wield swords will die upon them? That wasn't a threat. That was a warning because elves have noodle arms and they kept accidentally impaling themselves.

LOL! This is so true. Comically, however, I made my elven lady inquisitor a dual-weapon holder Reaver. Watching her swing that big sword around inspires me. Maybe one day, too, my gumby arms will be able to slice a house in half and eat the insides for fuel. I laugh so hard, she looks so itty-bitty next to Bull!

I think it fit the desperate situation, kind of just "grab whatever you can to put something between THE THING and you". Plus a sword of that size can't weigh more than 1.5 Kg at most, heck hand-and-a-half swords rarely weighed even 2Kg's... Even a child could pick up that kind of sword. Maybe they couldn't USE it, but they could certainly pick it up :)

The giant ceremonial sword used when you become inquisitor might be a different matter for spindly elven limbs however...

I dare say that having not ever seen Corypheus before, hadn't played the DA II dlc, I dare say that the old man was sodding intimidating. Poor Aurelius Cadash looked like a stone-damned child next to his enormity. Can't imagine what it looks like to the Adaars here.